Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up
What marvels of ill assortment the film distributors perform when they dump their products at the close of the year in hope of award nominations.
Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Saving Private Malick Saving Private Malick
For twenty years, Terrence Malick has been absent from the screen, abandoning the world's filmoids to their own devices: to watch Badlands and Days of Heaven till the pr...
Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly
A film beginning with a shot of a little boy being beaten for not having learned the Declaration of the Rights of Man by heart, and closing in the overwhelming shadow of the guillo...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Full Metal Jacket Full Metal Jacket
The Marine Corps training camp where the first, and more striking, half of Full Metal Jacket takes place looks more like a medical facility than a military one.
Aug 1, 1987 / Books & the Arts / Terrence Rafferty